Michael Savage

Michael Savage (31 March 1942-) was an American conservative political commentator, author, activist, and nutritionist. He was known for hosting The Savage Nation and for his extremist political views.

Biography
Michael Alan Weiner was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York in 1942 to Russian-Jewish immigrants. During the 1960s and 1970s, he was affiliated with the New Left, befriending Beat poets. However, by 1980 he had developed conservative views, as he was disaffected with the unfairness of some welfare policies and with the rejection of his suggestion that closing gay bathhouses might be necessary to contain the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In 1994, he became a weekend radio host on KGO, claiming that he was to the right of Rush Limbaugh and "to the left of God". He became the host of the popular The Savage Nation show, and he characterized his views as national conservatism. He supported the English-only movement and argued that liberalism and progressivism were degrading American culture; after 2009, he was barred from entering the United Kingdom for his extremist views.